In Nigeria, hospitality business booms, even for women of easy virtue
The driver has just brought in two chest drawers I bought for half the price from an expatriate returning to his country with his family. From a reliable source, not less than four expatriate families are leaving the services of the company. Many other companies are doing the same as every other week; there are text messages to people close to the expatriate community on household stuff for sale by departing families. It is not unbecoming of these companies that few years ago provided such families with paradise on earth facilities in Nigeria for their expatriate staff. Their kids attend international schools where school tuition fees are not less than $20,000 a year, luxurious lifestyle, exotic vacations, hordes of maids and drivers at the beck and call of the wife of the male expatriate popularly referred to in Nigeria as the ‘Madam’. Those were the good old days. Since the global meltdown, there has been belt tightening by companies especially those that hire expatriates to run thei